The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. -Howard H. Aiken-

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made. -Dan Quayle-

Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat “what if?” questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working. -Dave Barry-

Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

No nation was ever ruined by trade. -Benjamin Franklin-

Of course it’s hard. If it was easy everyone would want to do it.

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter. -Dave Barry-

Sorry, but I get paid to think and right now I’m off the clock.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. -Steve Jobs-

Put glibly: In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it. Of course, you seldom, if ever, see either pure state. -Richard W. Hamming-